The Impact of Individual Interest and Proficiency on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Foreign Language Listening

Interest and self-efficacy beliefs are important components of motivational constructs that share some common characteristics influence learning. Studies examining how these two relate to each other, however, appear be few, especially in the area language To fill this gap, study aims investigate interest learning English proficiency listening, using a pre/post-design. This focused on exploring role development 107 EFL Korean university students, with low-intermediate proficiency. Despite participants' proficiency, they were found possess maintain relatively high over course enrolled in. Regression analyses revealed that, unlike at beginning course, individual was significant factor advanced skill around end semester, even predicting it more than did.